name and place each element of a list in Global Environment

Question

If you have a list but you want each element of the list to be it\'s own separate element in the global environment e.g.

alist <- list( c(1,2         


        

Answer 1

Use list2env

alist <- list( a=c(1,2), b=c(3,4) )  # naming list elements
list2env(alist, envir = .GlobalEnv)

Answer 2

If your elements aren't named, then you can do mapply with assign:

mapply(assign, list("a","b"), alist, MoreArgs=list(envir=.GlobalEnv))
> ls()
## [1] "a"     "alist" "b"

But what Roland said.